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Your new movie Don't
Get in the Car - in a few words, what is it about?
A woman is forced to drive a Lincoln to do errands that will save her and
her loved ones.
Now
how did the project come into being in the first place? Staci
Layne Wilson [Staci Layne
Wilson interview - click here] mentioned to producer Lony
Ruhmann that I could help write and direct the
film. So I took a pass at the script and we were in motion. What
were your sources of inspiration when writing Don't
Get in the Car?
I rewrote/contributed to it in 3 days while held up in New Jersey
at a hotel during a horror film convention. I always liked gritty noir
grindhouse films and just played up the elements that were already in the
film. You've written Don't
Get in the Car together with Staci Layne Wilson - so what can you tell us
about her, and what was your collaboration like? Staci is a
longtime friend and I respect her and enjoy working with her. She gave me
the script and said as long as you keep the same characters and keep it
all inside the car you can do pretty much anything within reason. I
appreciated how collaborative and open she was to my contributions. She's
succinct in her notes also. With Don't
Get in the Car mostly taking place around and inside a car, what
were your techniques to keep things visually interesting throughout?
We mounted cameras with remote pan and focus options all over the car
so we could essentially get multiple shots at once.We shot the film in 5
days and it was super down'n'dirty filmmaking. The sound person didn't show
up day one so I hid in the backseat recording sound across the laps of the
actors. What can you tell us about your overall directorial approach to your story at
hand? The original producer wanted me to do all poor man's
process for the film but I talked her husband into letting me take the car
out and drive it in the neighborhood to make the filming more dynamic.
Do talk about Don't
Get in the Car's cast, and why exactly these people?
90% of the cast were chosen before I was brought onboard so I only cast 2
people- and I'm actually in the film for one scene as one of the actors
didn't show up... But overall I enjoyed the perfomances and rewrote the
script in parts to match the actors' looks and performances I saw in other
projects during my research just days before
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few words about the shoot as such, and the on-set atmosphere?
Everyone worked very hard and there was no time to really think about
anything other than getting the shots. We drove around Van Nuys 8pm-6am
every night for a week - it's the grittiest film and a snapshot of the
loction and time. The
$64-question of course, where can Don't
Get in the Car be seen? YouTube! Which I
believe is the key to NONDE distribution and the future of widespread
media. Anything you can tell us
about audience and critical reception of Don't
Get in the Car? The film has played at 100 festivals
internationally and won many awards. People love it. What got you into filmmaking in the first
place, and did your receive any formal training on the subject?
This film and another film were my version of film school. I didn't have any training. What
can you tell us about your filmwork prior to Don't
Get in the Car? I'm a performer so I came from theater
and stage performance and directing. How would you describe yourself
as a director? Hands on. Filmmakers who inspire you?
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Radley Metzger, Alan Parker, Lucio Fulci [Lucio
Fulci bio - click here]. Your
favourite movies? And of course, films you really
deplore? Love Klute and The Liquorice
Quartet, hate Love Actually. Your/your movie's website, social media,
whatever else? Dolly Danger and Clarice Paris
are my handles J Thanks for the
interview! Thanks for the interview! Hope you enjoy the film
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